Marty asked why they start muted. Browsers only permit autoplay when a video
is muted, so "expand and play" necessarily meant "expand and play silently" —
and for these that is the wrong trade, because the narration IS the training.
A member's first visit was showing them a silent walkthrough.
So the panel now opens paused with the play button showing. Pressing it is a
user gesture, which means it plays with sound, every time. preload stays
'none' until the panel opens, then goes to 'metadata' so an open panel shows
a real first frame instead of a black rectangle.
Each bar now also carries its runtime ("· 71 sec"), so nobody has to guess
whether they are committing to one minute or ten.
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Twelve narrated walkthroughs, one per Suite tool, in Marty's cloned voice.
No screen recording involved: Playwright drives and records the real UI,
ElevenLabs narrates, ffmpeg muxes. Pipeline lives outside this repo at
../video-pipeline.
Placement (Marty's call): TOP of each tool page but COLLAPSED — a one-line
"Watch the walkthrough" bar that auto-opens on a member's first visit to that
specific tool and stays shut after. A video in a separate library never gets
watched; an embedded player pushes the tool below the fold on mobile for every
returning member. First-visit autoplay is muted, so it is never a surprise
noise, and every localStorage access is guarded because it throws outright in
private windows.
Served from the data volume via /tv/<slug>.mp4, NOT from public/. That
directory is already 199MB and another 33MB of MP4 would ride along on every
deploy forever; this way a video can also be re-cut and dropped in without a
rebuild. The route implements HTTP range requests — without them the scrub bar
renders but cannot seek, which looks broken in a way people rarely report.
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Four new tools, so no tier is a placeholder any more:
L4 Voice Profile (/suite/voice) — five short answers that ride along with
every Copy Engine and Email Engine generation. It sits BEFORE the compliance
block in the prompt on purpose: a personal voice must never be able to talk
the model out of the honesty rules. suite-email builds its own prompt, so the
profile is threaded in there separately or email would keep sounding generic
while the Copy Engine sounded like the member.
L5 Split Tester (/suite/split) — 2-3 variants launched as one test with the
impressions split evenly, then click counters compared. Deliberately
conservative: it will not declare a winner until both arms have real volume
AND the leader is clearly ahead, because a 3-click gap on 400 impressions is
noise. A genuine tie is reported as a tie, which is useful information too.
A failed arm rolls back the whole test rather than leaving half of it running.
Apex is the right home for it — that is where impressions jump to 50,000.
L6 Funnel Factory (/suite/funnel) — extra named pages at /p/<id>/<slug>, so a
leader can run one page per audience and point different ads at each. Missing
slugs fall back to the member's main page, same no-dead-ends rule as /p/<id>.
L7 Leader Ops (/suite/leader) — the coaching radar already existed in chain.js
and only admin could see it, which was backwards: the leaders running those
legs need it more than anyone. Now scoped to the member's own organisation,
with a written plan built on contract-read facts only. Follows the
teach-forward rule — the digest gives the leader words to hand down, not just
numbers to act on.
Tile copy across the wall and the payout alerts now describes what actually
exists rather than what was sketched. suite-tools.js was stale in both
directions (it still had the Traffic Desk at L5 and L3 not live).
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